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2007 Primary Care Conference edition
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Community Health Center Week
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August 5 through 11, 2007
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The week of August 5-11 is Community Health Center Week. The purpose of Community Health Center Week is to demonstrate the value of the community health centers and bring visibility to their work.
This year's theme is "America's Health Centers, Your Health Care Home." A health care home — or regular source of primary care — prevents sickness, manages chronic illness, and reduces the need for avoidable, costlier care such as emergency room visits and hospitalizations.
Today, 35 million Americans — many of whom actually have health insurance coverage — lack access to a health care home because they live in communities where there is an acute shortage of health care providers.*
* Source: National Association of Community Health Centers (NACHC)
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Currently scheduled events (be sure to check back often for updates)
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- August 6, 2 p.m. - Congressman Peter Welch to visit the Community Health Center of Burlington
- August 7, 7:30-9:30 a.m. - Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter to attend Legislative Breakfast at Avis Goodwin Community Health Center
- August 7, 4-5 p.m. - Senator John Sununu to visit Manchester Community Health Center
- August 8, 8:45-9:45 a.m. - Congressman Paul Hodes to visit Nashua Area Health Center (Lamprey Health Care)
- August 8, 3-4 p.m. - Governor Jim Douglas will proclaim August 5-11, 2007 as Community Health Center Week in Vermont at The Health Center of Plainfield, Vermont
- August 8, 4-6 p.m. - Ice Cream Social at Families First Health & Support Center
- August 9, 9:30 a.m. - Senator John Sununu to visit the Mount Mooselaukee Health Center (Ammonoosuc Community Health Services, Inc.)
- August 9, 11:30 -12:30 p.m. - Governor John Lynch will proclaim August 5-11, 2007 as Community Health Center Week in New Hampshire on the State House Lawn
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| For more information, contact Hank Osborne at (603) 228-2830 x44 |
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